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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

by David T. Courtwright

Publication Year
2001
Language
English
Pages
289
File Size
2.3 MB
ISBN
9780674010031

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World Summary

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.

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